The monster in the room is citizens united. Its allowing Orban and Putin to fund all sorts of terrible things.
There is no returning to normality as defined by anyone. The only path is synthesis as taught by the harsh lessons of this criminal gang in power right now.
There is also a scene from the R. Lee Ermy vehicle "Siege of Firebase Gloria" that is similar -- but too gross to show here. He's got the severed heads of two guys in his hands and he's lecturing the defensive perimeter that Corporal Miller (whose severed head is in his right hand being held by his hair) allowed the gun pit to be captured and that he no longer has any respect for Corporal Miller.
Its a movie of course and for Vietnam era fodder a pretty decent B movie.
I got to say we were musing today about the Cuban drone strikes on Mar-a-lago being a biblical judgement...you almost want that to happen so they kharmic sodom and gomora judgement occurs.
HOLY CRAP!
F-15s, F-35, MQ-9 Reaper Drones: US Report Says 42 Aircraft Lost In Iran War
The actual combat aircraft not as shocking. Its combat, what are you going to do. The support aircraft is a shocking number.
7 KC-135s!
1 AWACS
2 MC-130
Well, when child molesters are setting up mutual protections rackets that pay off other child molesters you'd think that would rise to the level of curiosity for those folks.
seeing a lot about this in the UK feeds.
The guy who is going to challenge Starmer is pro-return to the EU. Brexit, being one of the "ur" events of Putin's intervention into non-Russian politics. Probably one of his most significant ones in any event...besides getting Trump elected in the US.